“Part of what I was trying to express is that WE would sit and ponder, what’s the problem here, how can we write faster, why we so slow? And then we’d go 'what made us faster in season one' and then we’d go 'we didn’t sit here talking about this, let’s just do this,' etc."

Earlier in January Mr Harmon also apologised for the season three delay – season two ended in October 2015.

Speaking at Sundance Film Festival 2017 he said: “I’m so sorry. I don't have a release date for season three.”

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Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon apologised for the delay

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Season three will return this summer for more wild adventures

“It’s late because of us, it’s late because of me. Rick and Morty keeps taking longer and longer to write, and I don’t known why”.

But in February writer Mike McMahan gave the fans a glimmer of hope when he tweeted out a picture of the scrip for the new season.